No one is ever satisfied

[ultravisitor]

Truth be told, I could have done the same but I'm much happier knowing that for a small amount more I don't need to make those decisions about what to keep. I knew that the second I deleted something I'd want to listen to it.

I totally get that, but I also have unlimited data now, so I don't care if I have to stream it.

 

[Duncanator]

It’s just crazy to me because I stream my music and I use Hulu for watching movies or tv shows. Everything is so stream-able now that I guess I personally do not see the use OTHER than pictures and videos....but even then everything can be backed up.

I totally understand why some opt for 256 but hate when they are disrespectful to those who got 64.

 

[C DM]

Yeah this particular complaint caught me off guard this year too. It’s amazing how quickly we forget that just two years ago the base configuration was 16 GB of storage. Apple doubled it to 32 GB last year and then doubled it again this year to 64 GB. When you consider just how long Apple clung to 16 GB as the base option, I think a quadrupling to 64 GB in two release cycles is not bad.

But why didn't Apple do it sooner and have 64 GB as the base last year? And why don't they have 128 GB as the base this year? Outrageous!

/s

 

[digitalexplr]

I don't need to justify my options with anyone. I got the amount I wanted. You should too. I don't care what you choice is. Doesn't affect me one way or the other.

 

[Michael Scrip]

then throw in 4K at 60fps and that storage is going to disappear VERY quickly. Sure, you could argue that 1080p at 30fps is perfectly fine but if this person loves taking videos then they're going to want the best quality and so they should!

Exactly.

4K 60p is 400MB a minute. So just 3 minutes of best-quality video is 1.2GB.

That's a lot of space for files to just sit there... probably never to be watched again.

I hope these people have some plan for somewhere else to store these videos... as the phone probably isn't the best place for permanent storage.

 

[deadworlds]

I've had hate from people that want to know why I would purchase the max capacity if I have no need for it.

Explaining to them that I buy what I want instead of what I need never seems to go over well.

I once has a T-mobile customer rep ask me why I needed a 128GB model. He then continued to go into my phone settings and check my storage usage ( I was doing a trade in). Its none if their business.

 

[eyoungren]

See, that's what I thought about myself and my needs, too, when I got a 6s Plus, so I got a 128GB model. It was almost completely full for the majority of the past two years. But then I thought about it and realized that over the past two years, while I might want to listen to deep cuts from my collection every now and then, I almost never want to listen to them when I'm using my phone. I want to listen to those songs on a stereo. The songs and albums that I typically listen to on my phone? Those hardly take up any space.

So for my next phone, I'll totally be set with 64GB. I'll still have plenty of space after downloading music from the Google servers and pinning it to my phone.

I have, probably a 14GB library of music in iTunes. Google Play music syncs it up to Google's cloud anytime there is a change in my library (including playlists).

I can listen to the totality of my library anytime on any device, Android, iOS or a Mac/PC. But the files themselves exist solely on my MBP and thus take up no space on any of my other devices.

I still choose to buy the max capacity offered when I go to buy.

I am not saying your choice is wrong, I am just saying my choice is different and I don't base it on need.
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I once has a T-mobile customer rep ask me why I needed a 128GB model. He then continued to go into my phone settings and check my storage usage ( I was doing a trade in). Its none if their business.

Damn right! I don't like it here when it happens, certainly not going to take it from a CSR!

 

[LizKat]

"Why on earth would anyone need more than 640K" Bill Gates

Yeah he was saying that right about the time desktop and "luggable" peripheral manufacturers were coming out with 20MB hardcards you could install in expansion slots and use instead of floppy disks.

Gates had a point. But the lasting point was that if you give us storage or memory expansion, we'll take it.

Anyone remember the now vintage but once phenomenal freeware vanilla text editor McSink? Thing launched in half a second and ran in 20k. You could open multiple documents at once, it wasn't all that vanilla either, a ton of handy features. Started out coded in a low level assembler language to reduce overhead, and was maintained up until around Mac System 8. It was one of the Swiss Army knives of choice for developers back then in porting popular PC programs to the Mac platform. We used to joke that the universe wasn't held up by "turtles, all the way down", it was really McSink did the heavy lifting.

Still, back when it was still a big deal to have a laptop w/ a 40MB drive in it, the end user world had moved on and more people were using word processors instead of text editors. The race to bulk up with more features, not to say bloat, was on.

Same old same old: build a stadium and someone will always manage to sell tickets, even while some customers complain about the view or the price and talk about a better design...

 

[justint1989]

People in general are never satisfied. That's the sad and unfortunate state of humanity.

Why on earth anyone needs more than 64GB on a phone is beyond me, but that's a discussion for another day. I was fine with 32GB personally.

I agree! I had the 32GB iPhone 7 Plus. I picked up the 64GB iPhone 8 Plus. I wasn’t nearing any storage capacity. I don’t store my music on my phone, I have unlimited data and WiFi so that’s a moot point for me. Google Photos is my friend. I’m using T most 10GB and that’s mainly for apps and messages.

 

[ultravisitor]

I still choose to buy the max capacity offered when I go to buy.

I am not saying your choice is wrong, I am just saying my choice is different and I don't base it on need.

That's fine. Did I say you were wrong?

 

[v0lume4]

Great post, OP. I think that in the case of the iPhone X, people see the price tag, and then they see the disparity between the base model (64GB) and the next step up (the 256GB model), and think, "For $1000, why couldn't Apple have just put 128GB in the base model?!"

And to be frank, I'd have to agree, only because of the price tag.

Otherwise, 64GB for all intents and purposes is more than enough for me. It will be a lonnnng time before I ever need more than that on my device. My iPhone 5 was the 64GB model -- at the time, the highest-end tier. I never filled it up, and I had that phone for years. I did dump my photos occasionally, however (but I do that anyway, for the sake of backing up my photos).

My current phone -- also 64GB. I currently am using like ~42GB of the total storage. That's probably the most storage I've ever used on a phone to date, and that's primarily because I have many Spotify playlists downloaded at max quality.

Bringing it all back together -- people are never satisfied. For a cell phone, the large majority of population doesn't even need 64GB. You wouldn't gather that by reading the MacRumors forums, but it's true.

 

[skydancer]

I had an iPhone 6 Plus with 128GB but have gone with the 8 Plus with 64GB this time. It was a bit unerving trading down in storage size! I've always gone for the top amount over all my years of iPhones, as a kind of future proofing; but I only use 50GB at the most, as I transfer all my photos and videos to my Macbook these days. I might have gone with 128GB again but having 256GB struck me as definite overkill in my case.

 

[SmugMaverick]

Yeah this particular complaint caught me off guard this year too. It’s amazing how quickly we forget that just two years ago the base configuration was 16 GB of storage. Apple doubled it to 32 GB last year and then doubled it again this year to 64 GB. When you consider just how long Apple clung to 16 GB as the base option, I think a quadrupling to 64 GB in two release cycles is not bad.

It's the freaking least they should have been doing years ago So don't praise it

They kept onto 16gb and that was a disgrace.

People issue is with the fact the middle option has been removed in a Snidey way

 

[Nozuka]

iOS10 and iOS11 added alot of ways to save/cleanup storage, so i'm a bit surprised that they increased it to 64GB.
But most likely they just did it earlier than usual to justify the higher price a bit.

32GB was definitely too little for me. but seeing as i'm only at 28GB space used on my iphone 7 now, i would probably be more than fine with the 64GB.

but i don't need to have all my music with me, i just download the new stuff or stream it. and i have the "optimize photos for the device" option set.

 

[BigMcGuire]

Does this bother anyone? I just loaded all my apps, downloaded my books, and I'm good. My iPhone 6s+ (128GB) used 16.6GB. Should increase some as Google Docs, Google Music, etc... other app cache builds up over time. (Just got my 8+ a few hours ago).

 

[eyoungren]

That's fine. Did I say you were wrong?

No, you did not. But I wanted to be clear I didn't believe you were wrong.

Sometimes that gets lost in translation…

 

[Duncanator]

Does this bother anyone? I just loaded all my apps, downloaded my books, and I'm good. My iPhone 6s+ (128GB) used 16.6GB. Should increase some as Google Docs, Google Music, etc... other app cache builds up over time. (Just got my 8+ a few hours ago).

Nope doesn’t bother me! I say get what you wish as it is your money. The main point of my post is I keep seeing people making negative remarks regarding the 64GB option.

 

[Jaekae]

Some people are just incapable of understanding that everyone uses their phones differently. I don't need more than 64GB, heck, I don't even need more than 32GB. I don't take many pictures & when I do they're all backed up in a cloud somewhere in cyberspace. I don't take videos, pretty much ever and I don't have/use a lot of apps (I can never find any good ones!) nor do I play many games on my phone, bar the occasional candy crush or whatever the 'in' thing is at the time.

Other people do the complete opposite with their phones and use it for everything, thus needing the larger storage.

WHY people feel the need to be patronising and belittle people who choose the base models, is beyond me. They just want to make other people feel **** so they can justify their 256GB iPhone that they will never fill up.

True. Dont understand why people always say that everyone need to justify their purchases. Everyone EARNS their money and have the right to use it for whatever they want. I think everyone that use that justify word is just jealous that others can be more sucessful at life than them

 

[joeblow7777]

Need no.

Want yes.

Because I want(ed) it.

I'm curious, how far does this want extend? Let's say that you've never exceeded 40GB on you phone, and the tiers offered for your next phone are 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB, would you max out with the 512?

(just talking hypothetically. I know there's no 512GB option).

 

[BigMcGuire]

Nope doesn’t bother me! I say get what you wish as it is your money. The main point of my post is I keep seeing people making negative remarks regarding the 64GB option.

Agreed 100%. .

 

[DNichter]

I’m using 33GB of my 256GB 7 Plus haha

 

[eyoungren]

I'm curious, how far does this want extend? Let's say that you've never exceeded 40GB on you phone, and the tiers offered for your next phone are 64GB, 256GB, and 512GB, would you max out with the 512?

(just talking hypothetically. I know there's no 512GB option).

If it is something I truly want then I would get the 512.

I have the capacity to be patient for what I want. If it's a temporary item only and I don't have the cash/credit then it wasn't for me. I've waited years for some things though - but eventually it happens.

But, we generally get high ticket items every 2 to 3.5 years with our tax refund. So, by that point I've figured out what I want and allocated the finances for it (usually).

The thing is that usually what I want covers what I need in spades so it works out.

 

[joeblow7777]

If it is something I truly want then I would get the 512.

I have the capacity to be patient for what I want. If it's a temporary item only and I don't have the cash/credit then it wasn't for me. I've waited years for some things though - but eventually it happens.

But, we generally get high ticket items every 2 to 3.5 years with our tax refund. So, by that point I've figured out what I want and allocated the finances for it (usually).

The thing is that usually what I want covers what I need in spades so it works out.

But I guess what I'm asking is, would you want the 512 if you know you're only going to use maybe 10-15% of its capacity?

 

[1BadManVan]

For me the 64gb was a no brainer for my needs and saved me a couple hundred bucks! Have a 64gb 6s plus for 2 years and still have nearly 30gb free on it so the 64gb iPhone 8 Plus made perfect sense. Returned my note 8 and got this phone for almost $200 less. Wife was very happy, she figured I would have gotten the 256gb model just because I could since it was the same price I was willing to pay for the note 8.

Rather take the money saved and throw it to AppleCare+, a new case and maybe a wireless charger

My only initial concern was Apple may have cheaped out on the storage drive quality and worried it would have been a noticeable speed decrease compared to the 256 model. Hopefully that’s not the case since I’ve seen so complaints about it

 

[thedeske]

"Why on earth would anyone need more than 640K" Bill Gates

Ah, now let's get funny. "You'll never need more than 1GB" A good friend and computer tech making the statement when I bought my first Mac - a 9500/132 (Top Of The Line). I bought the 2GB version for 200 more in spite of the recommendation. BTW, the fantastic Apple Extended Keyboard II was another 170 at the time. Total tab was 4600 and change in 96. Think about it for a moment when you puff over an iMac costing upwards of 4k plus these days. I had yet to buy a 1000.00 plus 17 inch Sony monitor to go with it.

A friend spent over 3000.00 on memory just before that time to go in a pizza box Mac. Perspective People!